Easy Homemade Naan Bread (Plain or with Basil)
Easy Homemade Naan Bread (Plain or with Basil)

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Easy Homemade Naan Bread (Plain or with Basil) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Easy Homemade Naan Bread (Plain or with Basil) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Making naan at home is easy and just as simple as making your traditional dinner roll. Great recipe for Easy Homemade Naan Bread (Plain or with Basil). I wanted to eat some naan, I adapted a recipe I'd written down from somwhere some time ago, to make a soft and light version that was to my taste, to get to this recipe.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy homemade naan bread (plain or with basil) using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Homemade Naan Bread (Plain or with Basil):
  1. Make ready 100 ml Cake flour
  2. Get 200 ml Bread (strong) flour
  3. Take 1 tsp Dry yeast
  4. Take 1 tbsp Sugar
  5. Take 1/3 tsp Salt
  6. Prepare 50 ml Milk (body temperature)
  7. Get 50 ml Lukewarm water (body temperature)
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp Oil (use olive oil for the basil version)
  9. Take 1 tsp Dried basil (for the basil version only)

Because it is so easy to make, it's great for sandwiches, wraps, or dippers for soups and stews all week long! If you're craving homemade pizza, but don't have the time or energy to make a pizza crust, just reach into the freezer and take out some naan bread. This Indian bread is a surprisingly good base for a quick, delicious pizza. It's crisp with just the right amount of chewy dough, and it's the perfect size for a personal pizza.

Steps to make Easy Homemade Naan Bread (Plain or with Basil):
  1. Put the cake and both flours in a large bowl and mix well. Shift the flour to one side, and make a hole in the middle with your finger.
  2. Put the dry yeast and sugar in the empty part of the bowl, and put the salt in the hole in the flour. This is to prevent the yeast and salt from touching each other.
  3. Add the warmed up milk and water plus oil (or olive oil), aiming for the area where the dry yeast is, little by little while mixing the flour in (mix the part with the salt in last).
  4. Mix it all together, and then knead for 15 to 20 minutes. Add the basil at this stage if you're making the basil version.
  5. When the dough is smooth, round it off, cover with plastic wrap, and leave to rest at room temperature for 30 minutes. If it's cold, put the bowl in a 40°C water bath.
  6. When the dough has risen to about 1.5 times its original size, deflate it, and punch it down.
  7. Divide into as many portions as you like. I divided it into 5 pieces this time; each piece is about the size of my palm.
  8. Press the dough out into a teardrop shape (or any shape you like), and line it up in an non-oiled frying pan. If all the pieces won't fit in at once, keep the reserved dough covered and warm.
  9. Cover loosely with aluminum foil, and cook over low heat until it's as browned as you like. Cook the other side in the same way and it's done. It takes about 2 minutes per side.

Naan is a leavened Indian flatbread traditionally cooked in a tandoor, a cylindrical clay or metal oven also used to make tandoori chicken. Plain yogurt gives the dough a pillowy, stretchy crumb, and cooking it over high heat gives naan bread its signature glossy, blistered surface, which is finished by brushing with ghee or butter. Naan is an Indian recipe; it's a type of flat bread. Traditionally they are baked inside a very hot clay tandoor oven, with charcoal or wood fire. The naan bread are stuck to the inside of the oven just like the picture below.

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